Wednesday, 5 September 2018

HACK MANCHESTER 2018 Challenge

Thales

Thales is a multi-national engineering company with five main business areas: Defence, Aerospace, Ground Transportation, Space and Security. At Thales we are constantly trying to master the undersea environment, which includes identifying mines in the world’s oceans.To achieve this we produce minehunting sonar, autonomous minehunting vessels and command systems. These can identify mines, which the Navy can then detonate in a controlled way making shipping lanes and harbours safer.These products are used by Navies all over the world.

The Challenge

Phone and web applications are common place in our daily lives, but not yet used by military personnel when doing missions. Your challenge is to come up with a prototype app that will alert an operator to a nearby threat, for example a mine or another submarine (this could be simulated by a sensor or some other input).Extended: What other features could this app have to help navy personnel while working? Let your imagination go wild!
The judge will be looking for:

Teamwork

Innovation

the finished product

Your progression of skills over the two days

The Prizes!

4 x Wireless Bluetooth Speakers!

The Judge

I am Marianne Giles and will be judging the Thales Challenge at the event. I am a Software Engineer working on Autonomous Minehunters, after getting a ‘BEng Computer Science with Industrial Placement’ from the University of York. I have worked in a wide range of roles in the company from coding to helping install systems on the ships, mainly focusing on delivering sensors for minehunters. As a judge I will be looking for teams who are thinking outside of the box, having fun and showing me how you reached a solution through teamwork!

The Train Experience

Friday, 13 October 2017

The Challenge

Our challenge for you is to
produce a project that mimics the functionality of a minehunter.

Think about one or more of the
following areas:

1.Classifying
an image or sound

This could be an app which can recognize a certain
shape in an image, or a certain sound and respond to it

2.The
security of actually logging in to the mine hunting system

For example eye recognition or finger print technology
could be used or a new way of storing passwords.

3.Ways
to set a course for an autonomous vehicle

This could be a website, or application allowing a
user to set an item going from A to B. Could we use touchscreens, voice
commands?

4.Mimics
the underwater environment

This could be a game or Minecraft

At Thales

At Thales we are constantly trying to master the undersea
environment, which includes identifying mines in the world’s oceans.

To achieve this we produce minehunting sonar, autonomous
minehunting vessels and command systems. These can identify mines, which the
Navy can then detonate in a controlled way making shipping lanes and harbours
safer.

These products are used by Navies all over the world.

Prizes

The winning team will receive:

·2 Build-Your-Own robotic arm kits

·2 RC Quadcopters with cameras

·4 boxes of Thales goodies!

Judge

I am Marianne Giles and will be judging the Thales Challenge
at the event. I am a second year graduate at Thales working as a Software
Engineer, after getting a ‘BEng Computer Science with Industrial Placement’
from the University of York. I have worked in a wide range of roles in the
company from coding to helping install systems on the ships, mainly focusing on
delivering sensors for minehunters.

As a judge I will be looking for teams who are thinking
outside of the box, having fun and showing me how you reached a solution
through teamwork!

Tuesday, 27 June 2017

About the company :

Thales is a multi-national engineering company with five main business areas: Defence, Aerospace, Ground Transportation, Space and Security. Our maritime missions business provides the eyes and ears of the Royal Navy and many other navies globally. We provide a variety of products from submarine hardware to mission planning software on submarines and boats.

The Task :

Your task is to design and create a game relating to Thales Maritime or the Maritime Defence Industry. This could cover any aspect from comparing small boats and mine hunters, to the sea and naval warfare. The only design constraint is that is needs to be relating to maritime, otherwise use your imagination!